COVID-19 becomes younger

The number of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County crossed the 75,000 mark on Tuesday.

COVID-19 is impacting the young in California in greater and greater proportions.

44 percent of new diagnoses are in people age 34 or younger, up from 29 percent a month ago. There has been a corresponding drop in cases among older people: the ratio of COVID-19 cases among those over 50 has plummeted from 46 percent to 30.5 percent over a corresponding period.

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